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Camp and Canal: 1905
Submitted by Dave on Thu, 02/04/2010 - 4:54pm.
New Orleans circa 1905. "Camp Street." A different perspective on the previously posted view along Canal Street. Detroit Publishing glass negative. View full size.
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Coke
Submitted by lexalpha on Fri, 02/05/2010 - 6:49pm.
That C. Lazard Co. sign on the right looks like what I think of as the "Coca-Cola" font. Anyone know the proper name of this font? This was post-Coke wasn't it?
[The Coca-Cola logo is Spencerian script. Coca-Cola got it start in the 1880s. - Dave]
Can't do much with...
Submitted by Tennessee Williams on Fri, 02/05/2010 - 8:03am.
A streetcar named Prytania.
A. Baldwin & Co. Ltd. Hardware
Submitted by Brooks on Thu, 02/04/2010 - 9:55pm.
A rooftop advertisement for my great-grandfather's hardware firm!
Beautiful!
Submitted by MS_Girl on Thu, 02/04/2010 - 8:20pm.
All these pictures of old New Orleans and BSL (Bay St. Louis) are making me so homesick. Thanks so much for posting them, and please keep them coming!
Looking upriver.
Submitted by Jimmy Longshanks on Thu, 02/04/2010 - 5:46pm.
Not a T-shirt or camera shop in sight. How did they survive?
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